Hello. I’m Peter Hemminger, a writer, editor, arts advocate, and communications professional based in Calgary, Alberta. 

My main role right now with the Transition Accelerator, an organization committed to building Canada’s competitive clean economy. As communications lead and now director of communications, I’ve helped develop their reputation as Canada’s most influential energy competitiveness and industrial strategy organization, along with launching initiatives like the Building Decarbonization Alliance, Electrifying Canada, and the Calgary Region Hydrogen Hub.

Prior to my time with the TA, I spent nine years as the executive director of the Quickdraw Animation Society, an award-winning charitable organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of animation. Aside from the overseeing the administrative side of Quickdraw from grant-writing and financial oversight to HR, communications, and copywriting, I also co-programmed the society’s annual Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival each November.

I’ve also spent 12 years hosting a weekly radio show on campus and community station CJSW 90.9FM, spent a decade on the board of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (where I still help out with grant writing), and have worked or volunteered in various capacities with the Calgary International Film Festival, Sled Island music and arts festival, the Calgary Folk Music Festival, and Calgary Arts Development, and I was honoured to be recognized by Avenue Magazine as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2019 for those contributions.

Feel free to look at my professional resume at the bottom of this page for more on any of that, or better still, reach out and contact me. Self-summaries are strange, and conversations are more interesting.

Contact:

General email: peterhemminger@gmail.com

Bluesky: peterhemminger.ca | theam.ca

 

Professional resumé: